Netherlandish style of glass painting in St Mary's Church, Fairford, Gloucestershire
St Mary's Church, Fairford, Gloucestershire, built by John Tame (d.1500), consecrated in 1497. Viewed from south-east. Home of the Fairford stained glass windows
The Fairford stained glass is a set of 28 pre-Reformation stained glass windows located in St Mary's Church, Fairford, Gloucestershire. The medieval stained glass panes are of national historical and architectural importance as they constitute what is "probably the most complete set of medieval stained glass in Britain" consisting of 28 windows displaying biblical scenes. They were added after the church had been rebuilt by the wealthy wool merchant John Tame (c.1430–1500). The glass was made between 1500 and 1517 under the instructions of his son, Edward Tame.[1][2]
The panes were once known as an example of Netherlandish-style glass painting, however they are now attributed to the Flemish glazier Barnard Flower (d.1517),[3] glazier to King Henry VII (1485–1509), and according to some sources, also to John Thornton of Coventry and Galyon Hone.[4] Several sources indicate that the overall design windows can probably be credited to Richard Fox, Bishop of Durham, later of Winchester.
The traditional story concerning the origin of the windows is related as follows by the Gloucestershire historian Bigland (d.1784) in his Account of the Parish of Fairford:[5]
"About the year 1492 soon after the Siege of Boloigne, a vessel bound to the port of Rome from the Low Countries and laden with painted glass, is said to have been taken by him (i.e. John Tame) who instantly determined on preparing a church here for its reception".
Most of the 28 windows comprise four separate lancets, usually each one displaying a different but related, biblical scene, beneath painted gothic canopy-work. Six smaller lights occupy the space at the apex of the gothic arched windows, usually displaying decorative features of angels, where the scenes below are supportive of the Christian faith, or of devils where opposed.
^David Ross (8 August 2018). "Historic Churches, Fairford, St Mary's Church". Global News. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
^David Ross (2007). "St Mary's Church - Fairford". Richard III Gloucester. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
^"Treasures of Fairford". VAM. 26 March 2006. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
^Colum Hourihane (23 November 2012). Gothic Stained Glass British Isles IV. Oxford University Press. p. 197. ISBN 9780195395365. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
^Bigland (1791), p. 6.
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